Sonnet 71 By William Shakespeare

Compare William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 12 and 73 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote a group of 154 sonnets between 1592 and 1597, which were compiled and published under the title 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' in 1609. The 154 poems are divided into two groups, a larger set, consisting of sonnets 1-126 which are addressed by the poet to a dear young man, the smaller group of sonnets 127-154 address another persona, a 'dark lady'. The larger set of sonnets display a deliberate sequence, a sonnet cycle akin to that used a decade earlier by the English poet Phillip Sidney (1554-1586) in 'Astrophel and Stella'. The themes of love and infidelity are dominant in both sets of poems, in the larger grouping; these themes are interwoven

The second stanza of the poem takes a shift. He urges that they are to die soon and that life is too short while death is forever. In lines 27 to 28, the speaker scares her by saying worms will try to take her virginity if she doesn't sleep with him now. As for the third stanza, the speaker is simplifying what is going to happen when she dies, so why not use up her precious time now?

In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as

       The theme, in Sonnet 73, is the poet's aging. Each quatrain develops an image of lateness, of approaching extinction - of a season, of a day, and of a fire, but they also apply to a life (Abrams et al. 867). The poet compares his age to three images through the quatrains: autumn, the dying of the year (first quatrain); the dying of the fire (third quatrain). The first line draws a picture of himself, "in me," and in a certain time, "That time of year," of his life (surely, he is old now). We can see that the

Although the tone is revealed and supported throughout the whole poem it is already solidified in the first stanza. The first stanza opens up what is going on and what the poem is going to be about. Just by reading the first line it explains how busy she is that even she could not stop for death. After reading that she was too busy for death we learn that death stopped for her in which she gladly joined him on his carriage. The tone is then reassured in the last stanza of this poem. Despite throughout the passage it is discovered in many ways that the speaker was satisfied with the way things went. In the last passage it says that she can remember the day like it was yesterday.

The poet throughout this poem is pointing out the mental task of the family and friends have to witness their loved one not knowing what’s going on. The sadness continues as the tone

The song opens with a boy who has experienced a continuously tedious repetition of trying to become assimilated to the society that rejects his identity. Being disillusioned from not receiving any result from what he considers a worthless land, becoming emotionally eroded and misperceiving death to be the only resolution to being set free from his burden of laboring: a ‘perfect persona’ that he cannot embody. However the author continues to transition from life to death and pivoting towards the desire to live again, coming to a realization that he is not yet beyond the point of being desensitized to death and accepting of it. Both poems express a similar theme of change, from life to death, and of family and depression during their endeavours to becoming a ‘better

In this sonnet, Shakespeare is talking to the reader while at the same time he is expressing himself. “But be contented: when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away,”- (Sonnet 74). In this line of the sonnet, Shakespeare is telling the reader that you should be in a state of happiness. Then the second part of that line is saying, even though you are a prisoner, you should strive to be in a happy state of mind. One way Shakespeare uses metaphors is in line 10, he talks about his body being dead even though he is still living. Shakespeare also uses symbolism. In line 7 he talks about himself even though he uses an example using the

I see a son holding his father’s hand, begging him not to leave. I see the father, frail, barely able to move, eyes watering, hooked up to IVs and laying in bed. In that scene, the poem speaks more loudly to me than I thought possible, simply because I cannot imagine being faced with losing my father. The speaker cannot either, but now that scenario is coming to pass, and he is unable to accept it, begging for his father to fight a battle all men are destined to lose. This desperation from the speaker is especially emphasized by the repletion of the lines “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.

The poem conveys a powerful message that when the death approaches, people need to know what has made his or her life meaningful, and should never fear death. Everyday in life people can use it for encouragement. For example, when your mother or father is sick, then their children can give them strength by using this phrase. It serves the same function such as if someone is going to commit suicide, but is saved by a family member. The title emphasizes his rage against his father’s death and he repeats the saying after every stanza. People reach a point in their lives where they feel it is useless to fight against a force that is

The lover is described as "more temperate" in line 2 and therefore less prone to vary between extremes.

In the third stanza, the message is that those that fight against death and claim that they could have accomplished more if they could continue to live, are good men. The next stanza speaks about wild men who have celebrated and "caught" the sun-symbolizing life-have realized that their lives are nearing their end. The second last stanza speaks of men who are very close to dying, but they realize that they can continue to fight against death. They decide that they are going to "blaze light meteors and be gay" instead of merely accepting their death and just dying. In the final stanza, the speaker directs the poem to their father who is close to dying. The speaker insists that his father "curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears" meaning that his father's death is devastating, but if he battles against death, it'll be heroic. The poem ends with the two lines that have been repeated throughout the poem meaning that the father should not submit to death, instead he should continue to battle

Truth and honesty are key elements to a good, healthy relationship. However, in Shakespeare's Sonnet 138, the key to a healthy relationship between the speaker and the Dark Lady is keeping up the lies they have constructed for one another. Through wordplay Shakespeare creates different levels of meaning, in doing this, he shows the nature of truth and flattery in relationships.

Shakespeare’s sonnet 60 expresses the inevitable end that comes with time and uses this dark truth to express his hopefulness that his poetry will carry his beloved’s beauty and worth into the future in some way so that it may never die. This love poem is, as all sonnets are, fourteen lines. Three quatrains form these fourteen lines, and each quatrain consists of two lines. Furthermore, the last two lines that follow these quatrains are known as the couplet. This sonnet has the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, as most Shakespearean sonnets follow. In each of the three quatrains, Shakespeare discusses a different idea. In this particular sonnet, the idea is how time continues to pass on, causing everything to die. The couplet connects these ideas to one central theme, this theme being Shakespeare’s hope for the beauty of his beloved’s immortality through his poetry’s continuation into future times.

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.